Children have a high prevalence of sleep problems and disorders. The current study will be a retrospective record review of clinic records from a subspecialty sleep medicine clinic staffed by a child...

Use of an Educational Story to Prepare Children with Developmental Disabilities for Overnight Polysomnography

Principal Investigator:

Accardo, Jennifer

We hypothesize that use of an educational story with pictures illustrating overnight polysomnography procedure accompanied by simple narrative will be a cost-effective, readily accepted intervention...

The purpose of this work is to study the role of the cerebellum in gait dysfunction for Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. While the symptoms of PD were originally ascribed to dopamine deficiency and...

The purpose of this work is to study the effect of a single, acute bout of physical exercise on subsequent motor learning. Previous studies have shown that acute bouts of aerobic exercise can lead to...

Leadership Behaviors of Health Professionals and the Associations with Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Health Promotion for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Principal Investigator:

Belcher, Harolyn

This study, using quantitative survey methodology, will assess health professionals working in University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) to measure leadership behaviors...

The KIDnet system is a clinical needs assessment, functional outcome measure, and therapeutic effectiveness database used by the State of Maryland and clinical foster care providers (Kennedy Krieger...

The proposed study is to request permission to continue federally mandated data collection to examine the clinical outcomes of children at the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy...

The Garden of Hope: Horticultural Therapy with Traumatized Children (HTTC) study will evaluate the effectiveness of horticultural therapy as an adjunct therapy to standard mental health treatment for...

What are the descriptive and clinical outcomes of 25 children treated at KKFC? Child-Caregiver dyads treated at KKFC will be assessed at baseline, three-months, six-months, nine-months and 12-months...

An Evaluation of Noncontingent Reinforcement and Differential Reinforcement with Escape Extinction in the Treatment of Food Refusal

Principal Investigator:

Borrero, Carrie

This study is a retrospective record review of former patients on the Pediatric Feeding Disorder Unit at Kennedy Krieger Institute. The primary objective of this study is to compare effects of escape...

Examining Child Mealtime Behavior Following the Implementation of Behavioral Treatments for Food Refusal

Principal Investigator:

Borrero, Carrie

Behavioral treatment of pediatric feeding disorders focuses on weakening or eliminating environmental contingencies that support food refusal and arranging contingencies to increase the likelihood of...

The Use of Video Modeling via an iPad to Increase Independence with Vocational Tasks for Students with Autism

Principal Investigator:

Brandenburg, Linda

The purpose of this study is to employ a single-case reversal research design (ABAB) to evaluate the effectiveness of using video modeling procedures by means of an iPad to increase independent task...

Fragile X Clinical and Research Cooperative Consortium Registry and Repository

Principal Investigator:

Budimirovic, Dejan

This project will advance the core activities of the Fragile X Clinical and Research Consortium (FXCRC). The FXCRC is a collaborative endeavor initiated in 2006 by the National Fragile X Foundation (...

The proposed study intends to begin identifying early signs of deviation from typical development (i.e., motor, language/communication, social) in individuals with FXS. Our study will be based on the...

Cardiac arrest in childhood often results in death or poor quality neurologic survival. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children is usually preceded by respiratory failure and hypoxia, whereas in-...

This 1 of three projects funded by a NIH consortium grant to study Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). It will create a national database, determine if urine biomarkers can predict neurologic progression in...